We The People – A Prototype Scottish Constitution Project

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:52

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By Mark McNaught

With the international participation of scholars and specialists, we at Newsnet Scotland are undertaking an ambitions project to develop a written constitution underpinning a modern independent Scotland worthy of its people.

Scotland’s Future calls for a constitutional convention after independence in 2016 to draft a written constitution. In the meantime, this does not prevent citizens and people throughout the world with good ideas from crowd-sourcing a solid, well thought out constitution worthy of ratification.

Biggest figures in plastic surgery since recession … but is this welcome news?

Sunday, 09 February 2014 17:10

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By Lynn Malone

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps), released figures this week that suggest a huge increase in the popularity of plastic surgery in the UK – with breast augmentation hitting the number one spot. These figures, they claim, show an impressive rise in demand for various procedures since the start of the recession in 2008.

Britain, apparently, is booming.

Wooing the undecided voter

Friday, 07 February 2014 16:39

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By Lesley Riddoch

UNDECIDED — unsure, uncertain, doubtful, dubious, unresolved, indecisive, irresolute, hesitant, tentative, wavering, vacillating, oscillating, equivocating, dithering, uncommitted, floating, shilly-shallying, wobbling, vague, hazy, unclear, ambivalent, in two minds, torn and split.

You’d need the self-esteem of a vole to be Undecided in Scotland and yet Don’t Knows still form a quarter of those surveyed in every independence poll. How come — especially after the voluminous White Paper?

Workers face stark choices

Friday, 24 January 2014 18:12

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By Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser

Working class people, the majority population of Scotland, face a stark choice this September. Vote NO to democratic self-government and get a renewed dose of attacks on jobs, wages, rights at work, benefits and public services from a Westminster regime emboldened by their success in seeing off any threatened ‘Scots rebellion’.

Newsnet Scotland interview with Dr. Mark McNaught

Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:29

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In this interview American Dr Mark McNaught reflects on his motivation for writing for Newsnet Scotland and participating in the independence referendum debate.

Given the deep yet understandable cynicism many Scots express towards politics, but also given the magnitude of the historical opportunity granted to Scots, he laments on the simplistic and puerile way in which the media has been covering it.